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'You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; for I am the LORD your God.

'Or in case a man has no relative [to redeem his property], but he has become more prosperous and has enough to buy it back,

'But if he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property.

'But if it is not redeemed for him within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently and irrevocably to the purchaser throughout his generations. It does not revert back in the Year of Jubilee.

'But the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for that is their permanent possession.

'Do not charge him usurious interest, but fear your God [with profound reverence], so your countryman may [continue to] live among you.

but he is to be with you as a hired man, as if he were a temporary resident; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee,

'You shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression), but you are to fear your God [with profound reverence].

'You may even bequeath them as an inheritance to your children after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your fellow countrymen, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with harshness (severity, oppression).

'But if you do not obey Me and do not [obediently] do all these commandments,

'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

'Yet if in spite of this you will not [attentively] listen to Me but act with hostility against me,

'But the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment for their wickedness and make amends because they rejected My ordinances and their soul rejected My statutes.

'But I will, for their sake, [earnestly] remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"

'But if the child is between one month and five years of age, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male and three shekels for the female.

'But if the person is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall be placed before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

'He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; but if he does exchange an animal for an animal, then both the original offering and its substitute shall be holy.

'But if he ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

'But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price for him in proportion to the years that remain until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

'If he does not redeem the field, but has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.